Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hippies and the economy to gain some strength for perhaps an all-out assault this fall." The nation's vacationing students appear ready to try one last time to work within the system for reform, but if they lose in November, the old story of violent unrest may well unreel anew. The Administration's moves to end dual school systems in the South have muted some criticism from blacks, but angered some former Nixon supporters. Last week South Carolina's Senator Strom Thurmond, once a defender of Richard Nixon against the Wallaceites, accused the President of following...
President Nixon's special adviser on campus unrest denied Wednesday that he had told Nixon that Berkeley and Columbia had been destroyed by student unrest...
...report broadcast Tuesday by NBC had indicated that G. Alexander Heard, chancellor of Vanderbilt University, would tell the President that neither school would be able to function next year because of student unrest and that he would blame Vice-President Agnew's rhetoric for much of the unrest...
...attitudes. As Scammon puts it: "Workers now aren't concerned about Taft-Hartley; they're concerned about crabgrass." Along with crabgrass, ironically, come many of the problems that the new white suburbanites left the center cities to escape: higher property taxes, overcrowded schools, inadequate transportation-and racial unrest, triggered by the presence of blacks who have also fled to the suburbs...
...interests in power. It counsels economic reform so as to better bypass the troubling social unrest that accompanies popular programs of modernization. This translates quickly to anti-communism...